[Simon Brooke]

If you've been around The Witcher for any length of time you'll have heard of 'Birth, & Virgins'; it's a mod we started working on for the original D'Jinni competition, more than two years ago. We won a number of the interim prizes in that competition. James Semple came on board and wrote us some really excellent original music and environmental sound, some of which has been included on the 1.5 release DVD. However, the development of the mod itself ran into difficulties, and it has taken a long time to finish.

However, it is now released, and you can download it from here; it is compressed with 7Zip.

''Birth, & Virgins'' presents Geralt with a series of moral dilemmas; the mod is strong on story (and particularly on music) and will appeal to role-playing gamers. It's shorter on magic and monsters.

Many people have contributed to this release. The core team of Simon Brooke and Carrol Dufault have been with the project from start to finish, but we're grateful for the contributions of many other people. Credits include:

* Story and main plot: Simon Brooke and Carrol Dufault
* Set design: Carrol Dufault
* Auxiliary plot lines: Cory Kerens
* Dialogue: Simon Brooke, Carrol Dufault, Cory Kerens
* Musical composition and sound design: James Semple
* Minor characters: Petra Prinz
* Testing and continuity: Simon Brooke, Carrol Dufault, Lovely_Psycho, Caroline Kintzel
* Scripting and cutscenes: Simon Brooke
* Flute: Lisa Smolen
* Violin: Heather Fenoughty
* Guitar: James Semple
* With help from:
** Lovely_Psycho,
** Hexenmeister Raven,
** Vaernus,
** Ifayra,
** Clark Verbrugge,
** Caroline Kintzel

If you find bugs, please report them here.

[e-ahmet]

Thank you. Will play this. I can't believe I haven't seen this before.

[blob]

Many thanks for the great adventure!

One question:

How do you kill Gutka? I take it that is necessary to lay Martyna's ghost to rest?

[e-ahmet]

I couldn't kill her. I might have messed up my game though. She wasn't anywhere to be found in daylight and when I went her place at night, she would throw me out. I think it's because I dealt with the main villain first. (can't remember his name)

[j2755]

Is there a walkthrough ??   If you  play out of step, will that effect game play ??  I am stuck and wondering if  I did something out of order...     

I think I killed all the Echinops and need rootstock to move on ????

  Will keep playing, or scrap this game and start over......

[Ryderych]

I'm having the same problem as j2755.  Any workarounds for this?  A walkthrough detailing "proper" quest sequence?

[3DMaster]

How do you get Echinopse Rootstock? I killed Echinopse but all they have is spores, no rootstock.

[Baku-1986]

I would like to play this adventure. It works, but unfortunately I can't load any save (just stuck at loading screen), so I would have to play whole adventure on one playthrough.

I've played every available adventure for Witcher (over 20) and I had no problem with them. I own Witcher Enhanced Edition with latest patch (Witcher.exe version is 1.5.0.1304). I've got Polish (my native language) and English version installed.

I also played english only adventures (Medical problems, Evil Decisions, Red Silk etc.) without problem.

Is there anything you can advice me to resolve this issue?

[Gilrond]

Thanks! I never saw this adventure mod before - will try it out.

[Corylea]

Gilrond said:

Thanks! I never saw this adventure mod before - will try it out. ›››

There are 19 adventures available in English; you can find a list of all of them here.

[Castledoque]

Regarding the list of available Witcher 1 adventures just mentioned, the link for Tribute seems to be broken. Does anyone know where we can find it?

[*Tommy*]

Castledoque said:

Regarding the list of available Witcher 1 adventures just mentioned, the link for Tribute seems to be broken. Does anyone know where we can find it? ›››

Try this one
https://www.dropbox....2163e683d76.rar

[Corylea]

Castledoque said:

Regarding the list of available Witcher 1 adventures just mentioned, the link for Tribute seems to be broken. Does anyone know where we can find it? ›››

I'm hosting a few of the "lost" adventures on my website, here: http://corylea.com/o...adventures.html

I've added a download link for "Tribute" to the list of adventures. I didn't want to remove the link to the thread, since that contains lots of descriptions and screenshots and so on, so for "Tribute," the download link and thread link are separate.

[Castledoque]

*Tommy* said:

Try this one
https://www.dropbox....2163e683d76.rar ›››

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

And many thanks also to Corylea, although I had already downloaded the adventure from *Tommy* 's link.

[Gilrond]

Corylea said:

There are 19 adventures available in English; you can find a list of all of them here. ›››

Thanks Corylea, very useful list!

[Flixster]

I have mixed feelings after playing this adventure. It had some great ideas, but it seems like it needed some more testing for bugs.

Pros:
-Interesting, mature story.

-Integrates with the lore and story of the Witcher - uses the Murky Waters map and actually admits that it's Murky Waters (and not some other village) and gives the history of some characters from TW1 (I think I even saw a little Alina!).

-Great music!

-Good use of the journal.

Cons:
-NPC schedules and behavior could be somewhat frustrating. For example, Gutka won't talk to you during the day and kicks you out of her house at night. Abigail won't talk to you while she's at work and kicks you out at night. It's an ok idea, but having a narrow window during which to talk to characters just made getting simple things done a chore.

-There were some bugs in the main plot, resulting in some unfinishable quests and nonsensical cutscene sequences:

When it's time to confront Barnabas at Martyna's grave, sometimes the dialogue doesn't trigger, and you can talk to Hela first. Then after dealing with Barnabas, this makes a cutscene play where Hela's brother and suitor show up, then a follow-up dialogue w/ Hela with a possible sex scene, then the first cutscene plays again. This sequence was all bugged out of order.

I was never able to get Echinops Rootstock. They never dropped, and eventually Echinops just stopped spawning.

I was never able to bring Gutka to justice. After I confronted Barnabas, Gutka just disappeared or was only home at night, where she kicked me out of the house automatically. I found her red shawl in Barnabas' lair, perhaps there was some other step toward proving her guilt that I missed?